News
21.01.2014 | Thomas Murray ranks VPS in the upper echelon of CSDs providing value added servicesIn Thomas Murray’s January report, which deals with the development of the services offered by CSDs world wide, VPS is ranked in the upper echelon of innovative CSDs with among others the U.S. CSD (DTCC) and the international central securities depositories Euroclear and Clearstream. | |
25.10.2013 | Oslo Børs VPS will introduce shorter settlement cycle in October 2014Oslo Børs VPS has decided to introduce T+2 with effect from 6 October 2014. This means that securities will be settled on the investor’s account in VPS two days after the transaction has taken place and consequently that the seller will receive payment after two days. Current market practice is that this process will take three days. | |
11.07.2013 | VPS establishes Market Advisory BoardThe securities industry in Europe will see substantial changes over the next years. We expect our CSD business to be subject to new regulations and more competition. We also believe that the proposed new regulations may lead to an exchange of roles between infrastructure and clients. | |
18.06.2013 | VPS strengthens its position in the Nordic fund services marketVerdipapirsentralen ASA (VPS) has agreed to acquire 100% of the shares in the Swedish software company Evolution Software Sweden AB and its wholly-owned subsidiary Evolution Financial Services AB (together referred to as Evolution). The acquisition will strengthen both VPS’s and Evolution’s positions in the Nordic investment fund market. | |
16.02.2012 | VPS working towards joining T2SVerdipapirsentralen ASA (VPS) takes a positive view of participation in Target2-Securities (T2S), which is the European Central Bank’s initiative to harmonise and integrate securities settlement in Europe. VPS has decided to work towards joining T2S in the second phase of the project (2018/2019). |